First report on two species of genus Monopis (Lepidoptera, Tineidae) collected by feather trap in Korea

The complete mitochondrial genome of Monopis longella Walker, 1863 (Lepidoptera: Tineidae)

“…Monopis longella Walker, 1863 (Lepidoptera: Tineidae) is distributed in Korea, Japan, China, Russia (Far East), Thailand, Malaysia, The Philippines, Vietnam, Pakistan, and India (Huang et al 2011 ; Lee et al 2016 ). This species was initially recorded from Korea as Monopis pavlovskii Zagulajev, 1955 (Ponomarenko and Park 1996 ), but was later synonymized to M. longella based on morphological and mitochondrial COI data (Huang et al 2011 ).…”

Preliminary observation on the lepidopteran colonization on rat and rabbit carcasses in Malaysia

“…Many species of the subfamily Tineinae, such as Tinea, Niditinea, and Monopis, have been reported in bird nests, faeces, and wool products (Lee et al, 2016;Lee et al, 2020). The larvae of these moths are known to feed on keratin and chitin sources, such as feathers, fur, pellets, arthropod remains, guano, and wool (Robinson, 1988;Robinson & Nielsen, 1993).…”

“…The genus currently comprises approximately 100 species, which are widespread and diverse throughout the Old World (Robinson & Nielsen, 1993) but there are approximately 36 species have been recorded in the Palaearctic and Oriental regions (Xiao & Li, 2006). Recently, two species of tineid moths, Monopis longella (Walker) and Monopis congestella (Walker) have been collected using artificial feather traps in South Korea (Lee et al, 2016). There was a case in Italy where the bodies of two missing children were infested with Tineidae in an enclosed underground environment (Introna et al, 2011).…”

The Meessiidae (Lepidoptera: Tineoidea) of Korea

“…The 5 allied revised families (Dryadaulidae, Eriocottidae, Psychidae, Tineidae, and Meessiidae) form the superfamily Tineoidea. Korean Tineoidea has been poorly studied until now; in total, 29 species of Tineidae (Byun et al 2009;Byun et al 2014;Lee et al 2016) and 15 species of Psychidae , 2017a, 2017bRoh et al , 2018 have been recorded. The family Meessiidae consisted of only 2 genera, Eudarcia Clemens, 1860 and Bathroxena Meyrick, 1919(Regier et al 2015.…”